Red Hat Contract Job Trends in Gloucestershire

Red Hat
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Gloucestershire requiring knowledge or experience of Red Hat products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Red Hat over the 6 months leading up to 14 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Red Hat, Inc.

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 52 31
Rank change year-on-year +2 -21 +23
Contract jobs citing Red Hat 5 4 24
As % of all contract jobs in Gloucestershire 1.32% 0.98% 5.27%
As % of the Vendors category 2.49% 2.65% 16.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 15
10th Percentile £475 £497 £500
25th Percentile £513 £510 £511
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £565 £525
Median % change year-on-year +6.19% +7.62% +2.44%
75th Percentile £663 £615 £725
90th Percentile £685 £626 £775
South West median daily rate £599 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +14.10% -8.70% +12.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
Median hourly rate £68.00 - -
South West median hourly rate £68.00 £74.00 -
% change year-on-year -8.11% - -

All Vendors
Gloucestershire

Red Hat falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in Gloucestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 201 151 150
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 53.03% 36.83% 32.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 145 87 85
10th Percentile £245 £373 £320
25th Percentile £375 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £520 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.65% -9.57% +12.20%
75th Percentile £538 £629 £700
90th Percentile £656 £680 £770
South West median daily rate £513 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -2.38% -2.33% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 7 23
10th Percentile £25.65 - £22.95
25th Percentile £31.52 £33.00 £42.36
Median hourly rate £45.92 £70.00 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year -34.40% +43.68% -3.55%
75th Percentile £68.00 - -
90th Percentile £70.83 - -
South West median hourly rate £23.50 £67.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -65.19% +22.73% -15.38%

Red Hat
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Red Hat relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire.

Red Hat job vacancy trend in Gloucestershire

Red Hat
Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Red Hat.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Red Hat

Red Hat
Daily Rate Histogram in Gloucestershire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Red Hat in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 14 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Red Hat in Gloucestershire

Red Hat
Hourly Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Red Hat.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Red Hat

Red Hat
Contract Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Red Hat within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 14 November 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Filton - 3 - -
Cheltenham +14 1 £700 +33.33% 3
Red Hat
South West

Red Hat
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucestershire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) GCP
2 1 (20.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) CircleCI
1 1 (20.00%) GitLab
1 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Product Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) Products Support Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) Software Support Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) Support Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) Middleware
2 1 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (20.00%) OpenID
2 1 (20.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (20.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
2 3 (60.00%) Ubuntu
3 1 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (20.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (20.00%) DevSecOps
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Microservices
2 1 (20.00%) SFIA
2 1 (20.00%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Shell Script
2 4 (80.00%) C
3 3 (60.00%) Ada
3 3 (60.00%) C++
3 3 (60.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (20.00%) Bash
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (60.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (40.00%) Terraform
2 1 (20.00%) Ansible
2 1 (20.00%) Dell DRAC
2 1 (20.00%) Grafana
2 1 (20.00%) Podman
2 1 (20.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (20.00%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Dell
1 1 (20.00%) Splunk